Ali Guermazi, MD, PhD, MSc

Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Ali Guermazi, MD, PhD, MSc is a Professor of Radiology and Medicine, Director of the Quantitative Imaging Center, and Assistant Dean of Diversity and Inclusion at Boston University School of Medicine. He is the Chief of Radiology at the VA Boston Healthcare System. Prior to joining Boston University, he was Director of the Osteoporosis and Arthritis Research Group (OARG) at University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) and then Director of Clinical Research at Synarc, Inc. in San Francisco. Before that, Prof. Guermazi spent 12 years in Paris and worked mainly at the prestigious Saint-Louis University Hospital. Prof. Guermazi obtained his MD from Sfax University (Tunisia), then his specialty from Rene Descartes University in Paris (France) and his PhD from Jikei University in Tokyo (Japan). He is Visiting Professor at Jikei University in Tokyo and the Prefectorial University in Kyoto, Japan.

Prof. Guermazi was Deputy Editor of Radiology for almost 7 years (2013-2019). He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Skeletal Radiology, the official journal of the International Skeletal Radiology and also the President of the International Society of Osteoarthritis Imaging since 2019.

Prof. Guermazi’s interest is in musculoskeletal diseases. Of particular note are his scientific contributions in the diagnosis, incidence and disease progression assessment of osteoarthritis using MRI. His work has focused on identifying structural risk factors for developing and worsening osteoarthritis. Prof. Guermazi has been involved as an MRI reader for the past 25 years in several large U.S. studies including the Health Aging and Body Composition (Health ABC) study, the Boston Osteoarthritis Knee study (BOKS), the Multi-center Osteoarthritis STudy (MOST), the Framingham study, Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI), and other large NIH-funded studies, as well as several Pharmaceutical-sponsored clinical trials.

Prof. Guermazi is also interested in Interventional nonvascular radiology and imaging in Sports Medicine where he is The Expert Radiologist to the International Olympics Committee and Paris Saint-Germain Football team. Prof. Guermazi is the author of over 670 peer-reviewed PubMed publications, 12 books, over 50 chapters and Investigator on numerous research grants related to MRI reading for Osteoarthritis. His h-index is 111. He is the recipient of many awards among these the OARSI Excellence in Clinical Research in 2018 and the RSNA Margulis Award for the Best Paper in 2022. He has been invited to lecture in more than 70 countries world-wide.

Publications

  • Published 11/1/2025

    Hayashi D, Guermazi A. Editorial: Imaging, innovation, and interdisciplinary progress in the diagnosis and management of arthritis. Skeletal Radiol. 2025 Nov; 54(11):2225-2226. PMID: 40962868.

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  • Published 9/12/2025

    Park N, Sieberer JM, McGinley B, Manafzadeh AR, Lynch J, Segal NA, Lewis CE, Guermazi A, Roemer FW, Stefanik J, Felson DT, Fulkerson JP. Measures of Patellofemoral Morphology Predict the Risk of Local Cartilage Damage Progression: A Yale/MOST Collaborative Study. Am J Sports Med. 2025 Oct; 53(12):2881-2888. PMID: 40938089.

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  • Published 9/5/2025

    George N, Liew JW, Wang N, Tilley S, Guermazi A, Lynch J, Lewis C, Torner J, Neogi T. Does hsCRP provide insights into an inflammatory phenotype of knee osteoarthritis? Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2025 Sep 05. PMID: 40915380.

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  • Published 9/1/2025

    Collins JE, Mesenbrink P, Jin R, Dam EB, Deveza LA, Eckstein F, Guermazi A, Ladel C, Perry TA, Robinson D, Roemer FW, Swearingen CJ, Wirth W, Kraus VB, Hunter DJ. Magnetic Resonance Imaging Biomarkers of Knee Osteoarthritis Progression. ACR Open Rheumatol. 2025 Sep; 7(9):e70085. PMID: 40977252.

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  • Published 8/25/2025

    Couch JL, Patterson BE, Crossley KM, Guermazi A, King MG, De Oliveira Silva D, Whittaker JL, Girdwood MA, Culvenor AG. Knee crepitus and osteoarthritis features in young adults following traumatic knee injury. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2025 Aug 25. PMID: 40855080.

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Other Positions

  • Chief, Radiology
    VA Boston Healthcare System
  • Assistant Dean, Diversity & Inclusion
    Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
  • Professor, Medicine
    Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Education

  • University of Sfax, MD
  • Jikei University School of Medicine, PhD
  • Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris VI), MSc